Natural Pest and Disease Management
Event description
Join Karen Sutherland from Edible Eden Design at the beautiful West Brunswick Community Garden to learn how to manage destructive garden pests naturally. All gardens contain a mixture of insects, and in this hands-on workshop Karen will demonstrate how to tell the good from the bad and some organic methods to encourage beneficial insects and control destructive ones, as well as strategies to manage other wildlife in your garden.
Your facilitator Karen Sutherland has spent her life in the garden, from an 8 year old in her vegie patch to training at Ceres, Melbourne Zoological Gardens, an Associate Diploma in Applied Science from Melbourne University (Burnley), and a Permaculture Design Certificate with Bill Mollison. She has run her own horticultural business for 35 years and 12 years ago shifted her focus to edible plants as ‘Edible Eden Design’.
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This is an outdoor event and will go ahead in all weather, so please come prepared with hat, sunscreen, rain jacket, water bottle etc.
Please note that this is an event for Naarm/Melbourne gardeners only. If you live outside this area, please contact your council to find out what free sustainable gardening events are available locally.
If you have any access or support questions or requirements in order to participate fully (eg. interpreter), please let us know at least two weeks prior to the event and we will be pleased to assist you. Photos will be taken at this event, but there is an option to opt out on the day.
This My Smart Garden event is proudly presented by Merri-Bek City Council on the land of Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung people of the Kulin nation. My Smart Garden pays our respect to Elders past, present and emerging and acknowledges that First Nations peoples have cared for Country sustainably for tens of thousands of years.
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